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25-668: The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive ( BAMPFA , formerly abbreviated as BAM / PFA ) are a combined art museum, repertory movie theater, and archive associated with the University of California, Berkeley . Lawrence Rinder was Director from 2008, succeeded by Julie Rodrigues Widholm in August, 2020. The museum is a member of the North American Reciprocal Museums program. The University of California art collection began with Flight into Egypt ,

50-579: A 16th-century oil on wood panel by the School of Joachim Patinir gifted to the university by San Francisco banker and financier François Louis Alfred Pioche in 1870. The museum was founded in 1963 after a donation was made to the university from artist and teacher Hans Hofmann of 45 paintings plus $ 250,000. A competition to design a building was announced in 1964, and the museum, designed by Mario Ciampi , and associates Ronald Wagner and Richard Jurasch, opened in 1970. Founding Director Peter Selz , formerly of

75-400: A dynamic balance between international, national, and local artists, featuring artists such as Zarouhie Abdalian , Michael Armitage , Geta Brătescu , Cecilia Edefalk , Paz Errázuriz , Nicole Eisenman , Myoko Ito , Anna Maria Maiolino , Otobong Nkanga , Will Rogan , Linda Stark , and John Zurier . In 2009, the museum acquired (as a gift from the artist) 56 paintings and drawings from

100-557: A form of conceptualism. In the context of the arts see: Conceptualisms in Christoph Metzger, Conceputalisms in Musik, Kunst und Film , im Auftrag der Akademie der Künste, Berlin, 2003 Conceptualist realism (a view put forward by David Wiggins in 1980) states that our conceptual framework maps reality. Though separate from the historical debate regarding the status of universals, there has been significant debate regarding

125-526: A gift from the Richard and Mary L. Gray Collection added 15 significant works on paper to the collection, by artists including Guercino , Tiepolo , Guardi , Géricault , Juan Gris , Paul Klee , and Miró . The Pacific Film Archive (PFA) was founded by Sheldon Renan , who began screening films on the UC campus in 1966 and was appointed Director of the new PFA in 1967. The PFA specializes in programming films "in

150-647: A quite simplified form if compared with the elaborate scholastic theories. Sometimes the term is applied even to the radically different philosophy of Immanuel Kant , who holds that universals have no connection with things as they are in themselves because they (universals) are exclusively produced by our a priori mental structures and functions, even though the categories have an objective validity for objects of experience (that is, phenomena). In late modern philosophy , conceptualist views were held by G. W. F. Hegel . In contemporary times , Edmund Husserl 's philosophy of mathematics has been construed as

175-470: A theoretical or critical context—exploring, for example, film noir in the context of the post-war ethos." Lectures by film scholars and visits from filmmakers further contextualize the programming. The archive houses 16,000 films and videos, including the largest collection of Japanese films outside of Japan. The PFA also includes a library and study center, and maintains online catalogs of its films and books and an online database of documentation associated with

200-418: Is conceptual "from the ground up", that is, all perceptual experience is a form of conceptual experience. McDowell's philosophy of justification is considered a form of foundationalism : it is a form of foundationalism because it allows that certain judgements are warranted by experience and it is a coherent form of this view because it maintains that experience can warrant certain judgements because experience

225-433: Is irreducibly conceptual. A clear motivation of contemporary conceptualism is that the kind of perception that rational creatures like humans enjoy is unique in the fact that it has conceptual character. McDowell explains his position: I have urged that our perceptual relation to the world is conceptual all the way out to the world’s impacts on our receptive capacities. The idea of the conceptual that I mean to be invoking

250-613: Is to be understood in close connection with the idea of rationality, in the sense that is in play in the traditional separation of mature human beings, as rational animals, from the rest of the animal kingdom. Conceptual capacities are capacities that belong to their subject’s rationality. So another way of putting my claim is to say that our perceptual experience is permeated with rationality. I have also suggested, in passing, that something parallel should be said about our agency. McDowell's conceptualism, though rather distinct (philosophically and historically) from conceptualism's genesis, shares

275-561: The Abu Ghraib Series by Fernando Botero . Selections from the series have been regularly included in the museum's annual Art for Human Rights exhibitions. In 2014, the museum acquired San Francisco collector and dealer Steven Leiber's collection of Conceptual art and art materials, as well as his library of reference and artists' books related to Conceptualism and the Fluxus movement. According to The New York Times , "with

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300-569: The Jesuits : Pedro Hurtado de Mendoza , Rodrigo de Arriaga and Francisco Oviedo are the main figures. Although the order soon returned to the more realist philosophy of Francisco Suárez , the ideas of these Jesuits had a great impact on the early modern philosophy . Conceptualism was either explicitly or implicitly embraced by most of the early modern thinkers, including René Descartes , John Locke , Baruch Spinoza , Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz , George Berkeley , and David Hume – often in

325-647: The Museum of Modern Art in New York, served from 1965 to 1973 and played a key role in establishing the museum, championing unorthodox Bay Area artists. The collection holds more than 22,000 works of art, including Ming and Qing dynasty Chinese paintings, Mughal dynasty Indian miniature painting, Baroque painting, old master prints and drawings, early American painting, African-American quilts, 19th and 20th century photography, Conceptual art, and international contemporary art. The museum has mounted important exhibitions of

350-625: The Eli Leon Collection, BAMPFA presented Rosie Lee Tompkins: A Retrospective in 2020; The New York Times called it "a triumphal retrospective" that "confirms her standing as one of the great American artists–transcending craft, challenging painting and reshaping the canon." Drawing on the larger collection, the exhibition Rooted West: Twentieth Century African American Quilts in California will open at BAMPFA in June 2025. In 2021,

375-506: The New York firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro . Located at 2155 Center Street in downtown Berkeley, the building combines the shell of the pre-existing art deco concrete structure with a new metal-clad, skylighted addition that includes several galleries, a 232-seat theater, a store and a learning center. Construction began in 2013. The museum re-opened to the public on January 31, 2016. The building totals 83,000 square feet, with 25,000 square feet of gallery space. The vacated Mario Ciampi building

400-598: The Pacific Film Archive moved to a temporary building across the street. In 2008, BAMPFA unveiled plans for a new museum building, to be designed by the Japanese architect Toyo Ito and located in downtown Berkeley, across the street from UC Berkeley's main entrance. In 2009 construction of Ito's planned design was cancelled. Citing the weak economy and trouble raising necessary funds, BAMPFA decided to re-construct and enlarge (rather than completely demolish)

425-477: The acquisition…the museum and film archive will become one of the world’s most important centers for the study of Conceptual art." In 2019, as a bequest, the museum acquired the Eli Leon Collection of almost 3,000 works by African-American quilt makers, including more than 500 works by Rosie Lee Tompkins . The collection now accounts for about 15 percent of the museum's art collection. Drawing from

450-567: The conceptual character of experience since the release of Mind and World by John McDowell in 1994. McDowell's touchstone is the famous refutation that Wilfrid Sellars provided for what he called the " Myth of the Given "—the notion that all empirical knowledge is based on certain assumed or 'given' items, such as sense data. Thus, in rejecting the Myth of the Given, McDowell argues for perceptual conceptualism , according to which perceptual content

475-414: The details below. Request from 172.68.168.226 via cp1108 cp1108, Varnish XID 219652894 Upstream caches: cp1108 int Error: 429, Too Many Requests at Thu, 28 Nov 2024 07:40:29 GMT Conceptualism The evolution of late scholastic terminology has led to the emergence of conceptualism, which stemmed from doctrines that were previously considered to be nominalistic. The terminological distinction

500-411: The films. The former Berkeley Art Museum building was designed by Mario Ciampi and associates Ronald E. Wagner and Richard Jurasch and opened in 1970. The concrete Brutalist structure—one of the most inventive buildings in that style, with its fan-shaped procession down a spiral of semi-open galleries—was deemed seismically unsafe in 1997, and iron braces were added in 2001 to improve safety. In 1999,

525-645: The former University of California Press printing plant at that site, a 1939 Art Deco building on the California Register of Historic Resources and qualified to be on the National Register of Historic Places because of its role in the publication of the Unitied Nations Charter. In 2011, BAMPFA presented the schematic design for the $ 100 million transformation of the former printing plant into its new home, designed by

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550-446: The most potential in representing the roots of conceptualism. Abélard’s view denied the existence of determinate universals within things. William of Ockham was another famous late medieval thinker who had a strictly conceptualist solution to the metaphysical problem of universals. He argued that abstract concepts have no fundamentum outside the mind. In the 17th century conceptualism gained favour for some decades especially among

575-863: The works of Ant Farm , Joe Brainard , Joan Brown , Theresa Hak Kyung Cha , Robert Colescott , Jay DeFeo , Juan Gris , Eva Hesse , Paul Kos , Robert Mapplethorpe , Barry McGee , Richard Misrach , Bruce Nauman , Peter Paul Rubens , Martin Puryear , Sebastião Salgado , William Wiley , and many others. The museum also features the MATRIX Program for Contemporary Art. MATRIX has featured artists such as Jean-Michel Basquiat , Louise Bourgeois , James Lee Byars , Sophie Calle , Jay DeFeo , Willem de Kooning , Juan Downey , Eva Hesse , Sol LeWitt , Shirin Neshat , Nancy Spero , Cecilia Vicuña , and Andy Warhol . More recently, MATRIX has sought to establish

600-594: Was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2014. The building, seismically retrofitted and "reimagined", reopened in late 2021 as the Bakar BioEnginuity Hub, an incubator for biotechnology start-ups, named Woo Hon Fai Hall in honor of the father of a donor, David Woo. University of California, Berkeley Too Many Requests If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include

625-405: Was made in order to stress the difference between the claim that universal mental acts correspond with universal intentional objects and the perspective that dismissed the existence of universals outside the mind. The former perspective of rejection of objective universality was distinctly defined as conceptualism. Peter Abélard was a medieval thinker whose work is currently classified as having

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